Eric Linton

Spain will attempt Thursday to sell as much as 2 billion euros ($2.5 billion) of bonds at interest rates expected to be dangerously high.

Syrian troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stood accused by opponents Thursday of a new massacre of scores of villagers, hours before the United Nations Security Council convenes again review the crisis.

Asian shares nudged up Wednesday but were capped by concerns that Europe's financial strains could intensify without a global response, as Spain warned that it was being shut out of credit markets.

Nasdaq has reached out to at least one brokerage that lost money due to Facebook's botched IPO, saying it will make an announcement Wednesday.

Gold edged up Tuesday as oil and equities gained ahead of emergency talks by the Group of Seven leading industrialized powers, which will discuss the deepening problems in the euro zone that threaten to spur a global economic meltdown.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared in person Sunday to deny that his forces were responsible for the Houla massacre.

Egyptians continued protesting into Sunday, outraged that a court spared Mubarak's life.

Asian shares and the euro extended losses Friday as China's factory activity data delivered its weakest reading this year, highlighting concerns the worsening euro zone debt crisis will further undermine global economic growth.

Asian shares eased Friday, with China's factory activity data and a U.S. jobs report due later in the day making investors cautious as the escalating euro zone debt crisis threatened to further undermine growth worldwide.

A federal judge Thursday declared a Florida election law harsh and impractical for requiring groups conducting voter registration drives to turn in registration forms within 48 hours of collecting them, and blocked enforcement of the deadline.

The government said its preliminary investigation showed that anti-government forces were responsible.

Asian shares, the euro and oil prices fell Thursday as surging borrowing costs in Spain heightened fears of euro zone debt contagion.

The suspected killer of three people and shooter of two others at a cafe in Seattle's University District apparently has shot himself, police said

An honorary consul of Syria in the United States quit Wednesday, saying his decision was motivated by the killings of more than 100 civilians in Houla.

Police in Scotland charged a former spokesman of British Prime Minister David Cameron with perjury on Wednesday for remarks made in court over the phone hacking scandal.

The euro slipped against the dollar Tuesday, edging closer to two-year lows.

The U.N. Security Council met Sunday afternoon to discuss Friday's massacre in the Syrian town of Houla, which the United Nations has blamed on the Syrian government but Damascus and Moscow suggested was due to a rebel attack.

Eight members of an Afghan family, including six children and two women, were killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, local authorities said Sunday.

Former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, whose name has surfaced as a potential successor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, said Sunday he does not want the job and has not been asked by Democratic President Barack Obama.

The U.N. Security Council is to meet Sunday afternoon to discuss the Houla massacre in Syria, diplomats said.

George Zimmerman made statements to Sanford, Fla., police that help establish his guilt of second-degree murder for killing Trayvon Martin, prosecutors said in a court filing on Thursday.

Soon after the polls closed in Egypt Thursday night, the Muslim Brotherhood asserted on its television channel that its candidate Mohamed Mursi was ahead based on the tally from some districts.

Pedro Hernandez has been arrested in the 1979 murder of Etan Patz, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced Thursday evening.

The staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has concluded its investigation into Lehman Brothers Holdings and will not likely recommend charges, according to the excerpt of a memo.

Global stocks eked out gains on Thursday while the euro fell as data suggested Europe's debt woes were spreading and worsening a global economic slowdown.

Japan's Nikkei share average rose in early trading Tuesday, continuing Monday's technical correction as investors picked up bargains after last week's flurry of aggressive selling, triggered by concern over a deepening euro crisis.

Serbia's rightist opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic was leading in a presidential run-off on Sunday against liberal incumbent Boris Tadic by 50 percent to 47.7 percent, according to a preliminary unofficial projection.

A U.S. military instructor helping train Yemeni coast guards was shot and seriously wounded in an attack by unidentified assailants in the Red Sea city of Hudaida on Sunday, a Yemeni security source said.

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing over Scotland, which killed 270 people, has died at home in Libya, his brother said Sunday.